James Fidell <james at fidell.co.uk> writes:
>> No idea what Ubuntu installs by default, I'm afraid. The latest nvidia
> drivers are available from their website though and installation is
> really pretty straightforward. You may need to tweak a few options in
> xorg.conf to get it to perform the way you want but unless you're trying
> to get XvMC working, it's fairly painless.
Major kudos to James here. I went to NVidia's site tonight and
grabbed the geforce fx 5200 drivers, killed gdm with sudo
/etc/init.d/gdm stop to get to a shell prompt with X dead,
apt-get install libc6-dev to get teh headers the nvidia shell script
needed for recompiling some kernel goodies, and it worked fine.
Of course, I had forgotten Alex's very helpful post to do it a more
Ubuntu friendly way while I was down in the basement with the myth
box.
At any rate, OMFG what a difference these accellerated drivers made.
I could not believe it. The "prescaling images" stuff when starting
the front end which used to take about 10 seconds or so dropped to
under a second, and the menus are zippy zippy zippy. How did I live
without these drivers?
Thanks James and Alex. Now I've gotta figure out how to undo whatever
all nvidia's shell script might've done and revisit it a more upgrade
friendly ubuntu way. But as a reformed masochist^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H
gentoo user, I'm used to constantly fixing broken stuff at that level.
Thanks again -- my god what a difference the accelerated nvidia
drivers made in MythTV usability.